Newsweek International articles from March 2005

Newsweek International archives from March 2005

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
March 7, 2005... A Rich Politician Many Mexicans responded to our Jan. 24 story on Tijuana's mayor. One of the youngsters who praised our coverage wrote, "I'm worried about my country, where corruption and rich politicians are part of daily life." Others...

Tapping the Seven Seas; New ways of removing salt from water are relieving shortages.
March 7, 2005... Byline: William Underhill Only the hardier forms of river life thrive in the salt-tainted tidal water of the River Thames. It's dirty, brown and brackish, but to Tony Rachwal it's a reservoir of limitless potential. Next month his company,...

Identity Crisis; Italians once looked down on Spain as a poor country cousin. Now the roles are reversed.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Eric Pape, Jacopo Barigazzi and Stryker McGuire (With Mike Elkin in Madrid and Benedict Caparoso in London) Touchy, touchy. How to rile Italians these days? Suggest they're losing ground to Spain in the European power sweepstakes....

Not the Queen's English; Non-native English-speakers now outnumber native ones 3 to 1. And it's changing the way we communicate.(Cover Story)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Carla Power (With Sudip Mazumdar and Hindol Sengupta in Delhi, Paul Mooney in Beijing, Katka Krosnar in Prague, Emily Flynn and Marie Valla in London, B. J. Lee in Gyeonggi, Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Stefan Theil in Berlin, Henk Rossouw...

A Scorned Idealist; George W. Bush adores Natan Sharansky. So why don't the Israelis?
March 7, 2005... Byline: Aluf Benn (Benn is the diplomatic editor of the Israeli daily Haaretz.) Natan Sharansky is George W. Bush's favorite author. Since his re-election, the U.S. president has used every opportunity to praise "The Case for Democracy,"...

Burying the Hatchet; President Chen Shui-bian reaches out to a longtime rival, now a potential bridge to the suspicious leaders in Beijing.(Taiwanese, Chinese relations)
March 7, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Jonathan Adams They battled each other for more than two decades. Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian launched his political career as a defense lawyer for critics of an authoritarian regime that counted James Soong...

Arms Embargo: No Lift in Sales; Why European business can follow the U.S. lead on China, without really embarrassing the EU.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Rana Forhoohar (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris) No matter what Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroder may say, it's clear that European defense contractors plan to follow George Bush's lead and maintain the arms embargo on China. Mike...

Divide and Conquer; Bush's trip to Europe exposes a rift over the big question in Asia: what does China mean to do with its might?(arms embargo)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Melinda Liu (With John Barry in Washington, Karen MacGregor in Durban, Eric Pape and Marie Valla in Paris, Joe Cochrane in Phnom Penh, and Mac Margolis in Rio) A not-so-funny thing happened on George Bush's trip to Europe last...

Future Factories; The surprise is that India's manufacturing revolution is starting at the high end.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Jason Overdorf At a factory in greater Noida, an industrial suburb of Delhi, workers step through a series of "air showers" that blast the grime of one of the world's most polluted cities off their clothes. Then they pull on white...

Looking Sideways at Merlot.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Gersh Kuntzman Film snobs were happy that "Sideways" was nominated for this year's best picture. It's a terrific movie, with juicy performances, robust characters and silky nuances. And the actors aren't bad, either. With all...

The Zen of Fighting iPod; Creative Technologies' Sim Wong Hoo, king of PC sound, thinks his digital music players can bite Apple.(Zen Micro)(Interview)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy Most customers of creative Technologies don't even know it. They're the millions who have the Sound Blaster circuit boards in their PCs that process the audio boomed through the speakers. The Singapore-based company has...

Perspectives.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: BBC, USA Today, Associated Press, New York Times (2), Denver Post "What have you done to me?" Pope John Paul II, joking in a note after undergoing a tracheotomy "Some of his ideas...

Periscope.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey with Robert Blair Kaiser, Karen Lowry Miller, Mark Hosenball, Mikhail Fishman, Lisa Helem, Steve Friess, David Ansen, Devin Gordon Exclusive: Unusual Will to Live Pope John Paul II went back to the hospital...

Tip Sheet.(interactive toys)(hot chocolate)(perfume worn my Marie Antoinette)(combatting seasonal affective disorder)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh, Erin Zaleski, John Barry, Sandy Lawrence Edry Technology: When Toys Talk Back By Ramin Setoodeh You'll be tickled by what Elmo can do now. This fall Fisher-Price will introduce a new talking plush toy based...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
March 14, 2005... Doing It Their Way Our Jan. 31 report on the world's rejection of the American way of life provoked a passionate response. "Thanks for telling the truth," said one reader. Asked another, "Why didn't this fine story run in my U.S. edition?"...

Real Estate: History in Reverse; The Poles are the ones buying up German property.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil It's our dream house," says Tomasz Pawlik, clicking through the slides on his laptop. In a few days, the 33-year-old restaurant owner in Szczecin, Poland, expects to sign the contract that will make him the owner of a...

The Real Crisis In Putin's Russia; A combustible synergy of terrorism, poverty, ethnic tensions, pervasive crime, corruption and radical Islam has left Moscow reeling.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Rajan Menon and Peter Reddaway (Menon is a professor at Lehigh University and a fellow at the New America Foundation. Reddaway teaches at George Washington University.) What's the main problem in Russia today? Most people have a...

The White Financier; Italy's central banker survives in a lifetime post with rare powers due in part to his strong Catholic support.(Antonio Fazio)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Jacopo Barigazzi Antonio Fazio has won. Whether Italy has is another question. When the scandal involving 14 billion euro in fictitious profits at Parmalat erupted in late 2003, Giulio Tremonti, then Italy's Finance minister,...

Waiting to Inhale; As asthma cases soar, doctors are finally beginning to understand how this chronic disease works. New treatments are on the horizon.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Tara Pepper (With Mike Kepp in Rio de Janeiro, Joanna Chen in Tel Aviv, Avrham Karshmer in Los Angeles, Sarah Schafer in Beijing and Tracy McNicoll in Paris) Kenia de Marco has lived most of her life in constant fear of the...

Green Profits; Indian corporate giants are rushing to cash in on the country's vast and mismanaged agricultural sector.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Ron Moreau and Sudip Mazumdar Two years ago, Indian corporate giant ITC set up a computer inside the modest, one-story brick house of wheat and soybean farmer Amar Singh Verma. Powered by rooftop solar panels and connected to the...

Seeking a Pragmatist; Iran election: Will Rafsanjani Run?(Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Maziar Bahari This June's presidential election promises to be a bittersweet one in Iran. The current president, Mohammad Khatami, was elected in 1997 as a reformist. He made many promises to the country's moderate majority, but...

Fear and Loathing; Spiking unemployment brings a new round of national anxiety--and worse. The worries are exaggerated but the consequences are not, for Germany or Europe.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil BRACE FOR THE DELUGE, the newsweekly Der Spiegel recently warned Germans. A wave of modern-day "serfs" is heading your way. Migrants from Poland and the Czech Republic--working for as little as 3 euro an hour, one...

A Real Sign Of Healing; A year after 3/11, the country's Muslims feel at home.(aftermath of Madrid train bombing )
March 14, 2005... Byline: Stryker McGuire and Mike Elkin A year ago Madrid's cavernous Atocha train station was filled with twisted steel and mangled bodies, killed by suspected Islamist terrorists. Spain is an ancient battleground between Christians and...

The Fight for Freedom; Two new books re-examine Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion.(Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya)(Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire)(Book Review)
March 14, 2005... Byline: John Ness On April 24, 1954, Nairobi residents woke up in the middle of a military purge. They had been living under a government-declared state of emergency for a year and a half, thanks to lethal ambushes by Mau Mau terrorists...

Hong Kong: The Last Tycoon? The presumed ouster of chief executive Tung Chee-hwa could mean the end of a clubby system of rule that's fueled huge protests.(Cover Story)
March 14, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Alexandra A. Seno (With Craig Simons in Beijing) The sinewy man hawking papers to morning commuters in Kowloon is unusually animated on this drizzly March day. Beside him stands a shoulder-high stack of South...

George H.W. Bush; 'A Message to the World'.(tsunami relief)(Interview)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Jon Meacham Sitting in his office in Houston, still on an anti-malarial pill regimen from his trip to tsunami-ravaged Southeast Asia, former president George H.W. Bush turned from his desk to his credenza to find a note that had...

After the Rain.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Rob Long Los Angeles has so many ways to fall apart: riots, fires, earthquakes. But the thing that really makes us go nuts out here is rain. There's been a lot lately. Hillside houses have begun to slip and buckle in the wet...

A Tough Line on Fraud; American scrutiny forces changes in Latin America.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Scott Johnson Mexico, along with most other countries in Latin America, is integrating rapidly with the global economy. The country's GDP grew by nearly 5 percent last quarter, and its investment climate is generally considered...

Perspectives.
March 14, 2005... Byline: QUOTATION SOURCES: CNN, Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, Boston Globe, Associated Press (2) "Someone will have to take responsibility." Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, after U.S. soldiers mistakenly fired on a vehicle...

Periscope.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Ansfield, Wang Zhenru and Alexandra A. Seno, Peter Hudson, Karen Lowry Miller, Piotr Zaremba and Andrew Nagorski, Mark Hosenball, Mark Russell, Vibhuti Patel, Jenny Barchfield, Nicki Gostin CHINA Raising the Stakes?...

Tip Sheet.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, Michelle Jana Chan, Tara Weingarten, Nicki Gostin, Peter Suciu TRAVEL: HOLIDAY ENHANCEMENTS By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Thinking about breast augmentation or a nose job? Rather than go to your local...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
March 21, 2005... Readers of our Feb. 7 cover story on diet and genes had advice of their own. A 70-year-old's recipe for rich old age: "good genes... eat healthy... play tennis and hockey... have a happy marriage and a good attitude." Another reader hailed the...

Who Shot the President? One year later, police finally have a suspect. Too bad he's dead.(assassination attempt on Chen Shui-bian solved)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Tim Culpan It's a story worthy of a Hollywood thriller--preferably directed by Oliver Stone, with a dash of Monty Python. An incumbent president facing potential defeat in a bitterly fought campaign survives an assassination...

Sony Is Not Japan; The appointment of a foreign CEO is a sign of how far the iconic company has fallen in the Japanese corporate elite.
March 21, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl (With Hideko Takayama and Kay Itoi in Tokyo, George Wehrfritz in Hong Kong, John Sparks and Michael Hastings in New York) When Sony last week announced that it was naming Welsh-born American Howard Stringer as its...

A Knight For Sony; Howard Stringer on his plans for rescuing the electronics flagship of the Japanese economy.(Interview)
March 21, 2005... Howard Stringer was about to embark on a round of Oscar weekend party-going when he got the call from Japan: Sony's chairman and CEO Nobuyuki Idei was stepping down and vice chairman Stringer, who is based in New York, was the pick as his...

Updating the Holocaust; Israel's Yad Vashem enters the multimedia age.(Holocaust History Museum)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Kevin Peraino (With Joanna Chen in Jerusalem) Avner Shalev tried to keep it real. The director of Jerusalem's recently renovated Holocaust History Museum, Yad Vashem, never liked the Disneyland feel of some rival exhibitions....

Reliable Intel in the War on Malaria.(estimating cases of Malaria)
March 21, 2005... Byline: R. M. Schneiderman Ever since the World Health Organization abandoned its goal of eradicating malaria in 1969, health-care workers have watched in alarm as the mosquito-born parasite Plasmodium falciparum has continued to spread,...

Moment Of Truth; 'The Captain' takes charge. Can he still get a faltering Romania into the EU?(Traian Basescu)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Andrei Postelnicu and Michael Meyer The new year was seconds away in Bucharest's Universitatii Square, where young people died fighting communism in 1989. A short, bald man jumped on stage. "Happy New Year, Romania. Happy New Year,...

Guns Or Ballots? For Lebanon to prosper, Hizbullah may have to choose between militancy and a more responsible political role.
March 21, 2005... Byline: Kevin Peraino (With Dan Ephron in Jerusalem and Dan Klaidman in Washington) During the first week of March, Lebanon's political opposition seemed to hold the world in its hand. Galvanized by the assassination of former prime...

The Singapore Clones; Temasek started as a novel experiment in state-run investing, but now its success is inspiring copycats.(state investment fund Temasek Holdings)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop If copying is the most sincere form of flattery, Singapore should be red in the face. Its Temasek Holdings was once a novel experiment: a state investment fund that molded renowned brands, like Singapore...

Stubborn Survivor; Despite U.S. sanctions, Southeast Asia's outcast is stumbling along. But its neighbors are ambivalent.(Burma)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Joe Cochrane Singapore foreign minister George Yeo is not known for talking tough on Burma. Then again, neither are any other Southeast Asia government officials when the region's pariah state comes up. But times are changing....

Health: Corners of the Mind; For some desperate patients, an electric current does what Prozac and talk therapy can't.(deep-brain stimulation to treat depression)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Clint Witchalls At the age of 18, Rob Matte was a student, a competitive cyclist and an outgoing person with lots of friends. Then he fell into an emotional dark hole. For years Matte tried just about every treatment available for...

The Other Side of Paradise; In his new film, Hany Abu-Assad shows the humanity of Palestinian suicide bombers. Not everyone approves.(Paradise Now)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Eric Pape As Hany Abu-Assad knows, it takes a certain kind of fortitude--some might say recklessness--to make a film in a place under military occupation. While he was shooting his new movie, "Paradise Now," on location in the West...

Fall From Grace; A brutal killing shows the IRA's true colors. But will it erode the public's support?
March 21, 2005... Byline: William Underhill Paula McCartney believes in plain speaking. Six weeks ago her brother Robert was battered and stabbed to death after coming to the aid of a friend caught up in a barroom brawl in Belfast. No one has been charged,...

Review: Looking for a Way Out; Sometimes even in total silence, the remarkably talented cast conveys the hopelessness of everyday life in the West Bank.(Paradise Now)(Movie Review)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Tara Pepper Standing at a bus stop on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, a raft of explosives concealed under his starched shirt and dark suit, Said (Kais Neshif), an intense young Arab from Nablus, has almost reached the climax of the...

Why I'm A Dollar Bull; Lonely Among the Bears: The relationship between deficits and the dollar is a red herring. And it is virtually impossible for the dollar to collapse when the United States is leading the world to higher interest rates.(Cover Story)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Gail Fosler (Fosler is chief economist of the Conference Board, a business network and research group in New York.) The conventional wisdom is that the dollar will decline because the United States has large trade and budget...

The Art of Pregress and Strife; Contemporary artists wrestle with modern India.
March 21, 2005... Byline: Vibhuti Patel Outsiders may know India as the land of outsourcing and curry, yoga and Bollywood films. But a startling insider's view is currently being revealed in "Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India," a two-part exhibit that...

Painting With Saddam; A gripping memoir of life under the Iraqi dictator.(I Fought Alongside Saddam)(Book Review)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Jenny Barchfield The day Iraqi painter Basim Yoni won first prize in a prestigious national art show, Saddam's secret service paid him not one, but two visits. The first time, they whisked him to one of the 20 presidential palaces,...

Donny George; A Real-Life Treasure Hunt.(director of Iraqi National Museum)(Interview)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan It's been two years since the start of the Iraq war, and with increasing news coverage of insurgents, torture scandals and successful elections, one issue has taken a back seat: the looting of the Iraq museum in...

The Pre- and Post-Bush Divide.(George Bush's foreign policy)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Andrew Nagorski A short time ago, the Bush administration's relations with, in Donald Rumsfeld's immortal words, "old Europe" were chilly, cold, in the deep freeze (pick your cliche). Now the U.S. secretary of Defense is disarming...

The Yin and Yang of Gambling.
March 21, 2005... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Passing a traffic accident recently, my taxi driver asked me to check out the cars' license-plate numbers. I thought it odd but assumed he wanted to be sure no one he knew was involved. Nope. It turned out...

Media: Life as a 'Reality Show'; Future TV, founded by Rafik Hariri, was once known for fluff. Now it's a key player in Lebanon's unfolding political drama.
March 21, 2005... Byline: Kevin Peraino To go live, or not? That was the dilemma at the 10 a.m. news meeting of Future Television, the Beirut-based cable network once-owned by slain former prime minister Rafik Hariri. The network's young management team...

Perspectives.
March 21, 2005... Byline: Sources from top: Reuters, Washington Times, New York Times, CNN, New York Times, Reuters, GQ Magazine, New York Daily News "It's time for the IRA to go out of business." U.S. Special Envoy Mitchell Reiss, on the paramilitary...

Periscope.(Interview)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Malcolm Beith, Frank Brown, Michael Isikoff, Emily Flynn, Vibhuti Patel, Kay Itoi, David A. Kaplan, Nicki Gostin Jordan: Truth Lies Within Thanks to recent events in the streets of Lebanon, headlines from the Middle East of...

Green and Still Chic; Forget Birkenstocks. The new generation of ecofashion even works with Blahniks.(environmentally friendly clothes)
March 21, 2005... Byline: Sarah Childress and Ginanne Brownell Here's a peek into your closet of the future. That sleek bodysuit? Woven from bamboo threads. The orange sheath? Corn fiber. The sequins on that red bolero jacket? Recycled Coke cans. All of...

Tip Sheet.
March 21, 2005... Byline: Raina Kelley, Craig Simons, John Barry, Ginanne Brownell Travel: Spring For Broadway By Raina Kelley Missed Christo's "The Gates"? Not to worry. Come to New York this spring and you can still see killer rabbits, Denzel in...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
March 28, 2005... A Girl's Best Friend Our Feb. 14 story on synthetic diamonds prompted readers to share their loyalty to the real thing. Wrote one, "A natural diamond is a miracle of nature... a man-made diamond is like an artificial rose." Opined another,...

The Barbarians Within; A rash of honor killings sends shock waves through Europe.
March 28, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil Hatun Surucu's crime was that she wanted to be free. Forced by her family to marry her cousin at age 16, the Turkish-born Berliner had divorced her husband, gone back to school and begun dating other men. On Feb. 7,...

On the Agenda; No matter how much governments may resist, the market and its allies are forcing change on Europe.
March 28, 2005... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller (With Stefan Theil in Berlin, Tracy McNicoll in Paris and Jacopo Barigazzi in Milan) These days, it's easy to despair for Europe, and many economists do. Growth forecasts for the euro zone are down, unemployment...

Perspective: Big Business v. Barroso; Europe's business leaders blame governments for lackluster growth and stalled reform. They should blame themselves.(Jose Manuel Durao Barroso)
March 28, 2005... Byline: Ann Mettler (Mettler is executive director of the Lisbon Council, a pro-reform think tank in Brussels.) The European Commission's new president, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, could use a little help. He's a champion of free-market...

A Despot Clings to Power; On the eve of elections, Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe is more vulnerable than ever.
March 28, 2005... Byline: Tom Masland As night falls, dance music rises from the rural beer hall. Nothing strange about that in backwater Africa, but a special vibe animates the small crowd in Tsholotsho, a market town in the arid cattle-herding region of...

Time to Say 'Enough'? Brazilians pay 61 different taxes. And a proposed new levy on the service sector has sparked a rebellion.
March 28, 2005... Byline: Mac Margolis Late in the 18th century, when Brazil was still a Portuguese colony, the natives were restless. So they called on Joaquim Jose da Silva Xavier, a soldier, prospector and sometime dentist (hence his nickname,...

Africa Is Changing, But Not Zimbabwe; Madhuku is the only man to have beaten Mugabe.(pro-democracy activist Lovemore Madhuku)
March 28, 2005... Byline: Peter Godwin (Godwin is the author of a memoir, "Mukiwa--A White Boy in Africa.") A month or so ago I found myself at a dinner in a New York loft with Lovemore Madhuku, a Zimbabwean pro-democracy activist (and head of the National...

Tax The People; Asian populists have been spending big on Western-style welfare programs. Now comes the bill.
March 28, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz (With Jonathan Adams in Taipei, B. J. Lee in Seoul, Alexandra A. Seno in Hong Kong, Marites Vitug in Manila and Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop in Singapore) Hong Kong financial secretary Henry Tang did something truly...

The Merchant Marine; The Chinese Navy is growing, and expanding its reach in Asia to secure oil and gas supplies.(ports of call create oil route)
March 28, 2005... Byline: Melinda Liu (With Stephen Glain in Washington and bureau reports) The new port of Gwadar will be unveiled April 6 as the "Dubai of Pakistan," even if it lacks the theme-park glitz of the Gulf's fantasy city. The point, say Chinese...

The Truth About Gender; The rift between the sexes just got a whole lot bigger. A new study has found that women and men differ genetically almost as much as humans differ from chimpanzees.
March 28, 2005... Byline: Fred Guterl When it comes to gender differences, everybody's an expert. But George Lazarus is a bit more expert than most. Although he doesn't study the subject formally, as a pediatrician in New York City he sees a lot of...

Darkness Visible; A new exhibit illuminates Strindberg's troubled mind.(August Strindberg)
March 28, 2005... Byline: Tara Pepper The first image of August Strindberg that visitors to London's Tate Modern see is a furrowed brow and wild shock of hair, sculpted in bronze by Carl Eldh. But that is hardly the only face of the Swedish dramatist on...

Walker On The Wild Side; Already famous in Europe, Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron are about to leave their first mark on the United States. But they're not stopping there.(Walker Art Center in Minneapolis)
March 28, 2005... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan As everyone knows, winter is still blasting the American Midwest. Besides the blustery snow, a giant ice cube has landed in Minneapolis--and it's not going to melt by spring. "A big ice cube for Ice City," jokes...

Putting People First; A radical prescription for curing Latin America's ills.(Liberty for Latin America)(Book Review)
March 28, 2005... Byline: Carlos Lozada (Lozada is a Knight-Bagehot fellow in economics and business journalism at Columbia University.) In the early 1990s, before the term "emerging markets" went from applause cue to punch line, Latin America was everyone's...

Fighting for God; Europe's dwindling Christians take on 'The Da Vinci Code,' and more.(Cover Story)
March 28, 2005... Byline: Carla Power (With Edward Pentin and Jacopo Barigazzi in Italy and Tracy McNicoll in Paris) It's only an airport thriller. But the best-selling "The Da Vinci Code" has so irritated leading members of the Roman Catholic Church that...

Ayad Allawi; Still Iraq's Top Dog, for Now.(Interview)
March 28, 2005... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh Officially, Ayad Allawi is still the leader of Iraq. In reality, he's on his way out. His political party, the Iraqi List, didn't do well in the elections six weeks ago, and his administration is popularly...

Fatsos.(products, services for overweight, obese people)
March 28, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Goodman A new clothing store called Torrid recently opened near where I live in Providence, Rhode Island. Passing by, I happened to notice that there were a lot of--how should I put it--well, fat teenage girls inside. I...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century)(Standing Alone in Mecca)(Those Who Save Us)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 28, 2005... Byline: Marie Valla, Aaron Clark, Ginanne Brownell Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century By Mark Leonard A British Euro-enthusiast, Leonard believes that Europe can best lay the template for a new world order made of multiple regional...